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How to Reduce Operational Costs for Your Small Business 

Strategy Driven

For small business owners, reducing operational costs is essential for the success of the company. Fortunately, there are several strategies to use for reducing operational costs and ensuring that a small business remains profitable. Below are eight effective ways to reduce operational costs in your small business.

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From Misunderstanding to Mastery: Four Dimensions to Transform Your Cross Cultural Leadership

Let's Grow Leaders

The Price of Cross Cultural Conflict There are so many benefits to leading a cross cultural team ( better problem solving and performance are just two examples), but failing to lead intentionally can also cause serious problems including: 1. This is an open discussion about the norms and ways in which the team will operate.

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What’s Your Time Worth? Why Pricing Matters

N2Growth Blog

Are you shooting yourself in the foot with your pricing strategy? What does your pricing say about your personal or corporate brand? Do you have a pricing strategy, or do you set your prices by some ethereal or arbitrary method? How much is your time worth?

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Moving Beyond Company Organization Silos: Lessons from the Aviation Industry

Leading Blog

That’s a shame because the aviation industry as a whole still continues to be an industry model for how to operate with extremely high reliability despite having a highly fragmented set of organizational entities. The biggest challenge for companies when it comes to operational excellence is siloed behavior. Recall how the U.S.

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Differentiation’s Arch Enemy: Price

In the CEO Afterlife

Last year, EU regulators fined P&G and Unilever to the tune of $456 million for price fixing laundry detergents in eight European countries. Collectively, these giants employ 300,000 people, the vast majority of which are committed to delivering results, ethically. Non-strategic’ was the pseudonym price aggression.

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Why Price Fixing Continues

In the CEO Afterlife

Last year, EU regulators fined P&G and Unilever to the tune of $456 million for price fixing laundry detergents in eight European countries. Collectively, these giants employ 300,000 people, the vast majority of which are committed to delivering results, ethically. Non-strategic’ was the pseudonym price aggression.

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How You Can Be More Organized When Leading Your Small Business

Joseph Lalonde

If you want your company to thrive and expand in 2022 and beyond, you need to get off to a strong start, and that involves ensuring that your operations are well-organized and productive. This is especially helpful if you need to travel or if you have team members who operate remotely from different locations.